Hello im still robin this is the aljazeera news online from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes zimbabwes ruling party prepares to impeach Robert Mugabe as the man who may replace him reportedly speaks out also syrian president Bashar Al Assad to makes a flying visit to russia thanking by the putin for his in his words saving his country also being modest accuse of subjecting its writing to whats described as a vicious system of apartheid and war crimes in afghanistan the International Criminal court wants to open an investigation which could expose the u. S. Military. Countdown to kickoff its exactly five years to go until the start of the twenty twenty two well for the blockade imposed by its regional neighbors well take a look at how thats affecting cattle. Good to have a couple here on the news hour we start in africa where the man expected to replace Robert Mugabe and zimbabwean president has reportedly spoken out for the First Time Since the military
Good morning welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im wilfred frost. Lets get to the markets quickly. We are higher in the premarket 16 points or so on the dow about 10 or 11 points on the nasdaq s p up 2 yesterday we did see the s p and nasdaq up about 0. 1 the dow led the charge it was up about 0. 3 in terms of trade in europe, broadly mixed. Asia is first. Sorry. Strong seconds ssion in asia. No real data or catalyst, but we are nicely higher. 1. 9 for hong kong european trade not as impressive its a mixed session its improved, as you can see in the last 20 minutes or so. The dax ended higher yesterday despite Angela Merkel saying she prefers fresh elections to governing as a minority leader, which feels like a gamble. The tax is higher today. The markets in general shrugging off the german Political Developments of the past couple of days. Back to the top story. The u. S. Justice department filing a lawsuit challenging at ts proposed acquisition of time warner. Leslie picker has the detai
Wall streetjournal. Welcome back. Let us start with the times. It is saying it has got some understanding, some insight into how politicians are grappling with this issue of the border between the Northern Ireland and ireland. Post brexit, how will it operate, how will it work . Is a difficult issue to overcome and get right. The times is saying we are close to a breakthrough. What i find interesting about this is that we are finally talking about the important issue. It has never really been about the tariffs and manufactured goods crossing the border, it has been a problem of how you would have uk regulations on the uk side of that border and eu regulations on the other side. This story is suggesting that they might be close to a deal on that, maybe by devolving some of the power to Northern Ireland. If that happens to bea Northern Ireland. If that happens to be a solution, it is finally getting the discussion to where it needed to be all along. The place where it has needed to be ba
Anna Saudi Arabias Energy ministers said stockpiles will not be any less close to opecs target when the group meets in june. The secondking for half of 2018 to see where we are in terms of supply and demand, so there is no intent to revisit that. Anna good morning, everybody. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. A warm welcome to the program. Aning a little bit in market that is the pressure you get from the asia equity session. Msci asiapacific down by. 1 . The stocks got a boost on top story, going up by. 4 on the s p in the middle of the session, but we are treated have we already seen the big men up on this story . Meeting in japan. No change, essentially, to policy. The big question is about governor kuroda and how long he plans to stay. Be bringing you that in japan. The 10 year yields very much mattof the story, miller. It touched 2. 5 in yesterdays session. We had lots of conversations about what was driving that. When is President Trump going to sign the legislation . A little b
Strategist issues a lengthy apology to trump and his family, and rallies around the president. Anna good morning, everybody. Six no one here in london, welcome to the program. Lets tell you whats been going on in the asian equity session. Manus, the msci asiapacific, excluding japan, which is out for today, is up by. 3 . The strength is coming through from the u. S. Session on friday, allowing markets in asia to edge higher. The s p closed out on its best week since december, 2016, largely putting aside any jobs report. He lets have a look at the dollar. The dollar index is stronger, breaking at 2017. Jobsa little strength coming through, with weakness in the emergingmarket currencies. We have a host of factors to keep an eye on when it comes to the dollar this week. U. S. Politics is ever president , what trump says on twitter, and now the house is back in action. And we have various fed speakers this week, and reporting season kicking off in earnest, which means the Banking Sector wi